Plus the perk with commercial free YT videos, as I watch quite much YT during the week. The big selling point for me was the opportunity to save some money, and pay for YT Premium with the music services included, instead of having two separate subscriptions. But I guess in time they will add more and more features, so I feel that I can live with some flaws and bugs in the meantime. I had Spotify for many years, and though they had a pretty good product, and still think Spotify is slightly better overall, and have some things, that YT Music lacks.īut now that I have had YT Music for a while, I am starting to like it more and more, even if there is room for some improvements here and there. So it looked as though I had never listened to a Kinks song before as far as far as the algorithm was concerned. Then one day, YouTube music lost the rights to The Kinks catalog, eventually restored it, but lost all my ratings. So a lot of the effort I have put into rating my songs on YouTube music has been thrown down the drain when the licensing rights were temporarily lost, and then brought back with a new version that retained none of the thumbs up or down ratings.Īn example I have shared previously is that at one point I went to the effort of giving a thumbs up or thumbs down to nearly every song in The Kinks catalog. In addition, YouTube music seems to have a greater problem with losing licensing rights, and the thumb up or thumb down that you have previously given to songs. In contrast, with YouTube music, you have to long press to see whether you have given any given song a thumbs up or thumbs down before. That matters to me because I am focused on music discovery. This makes it's easy to pick out and queue up songs I haven't heard before and want to try out.

At least that is true in playlist view, though not album view. My favorite feature of spotify, which keeps me there, is that you can see at a glance on mobile whether you have previously liked a song or not.

Youtube music vs spotify vs apple music